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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?
(a) War.
(b) An economic drift.
(c) Prejudices.
(d) Bad Laws.

2. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The power of the noblemen.
(b) Arts.
(c) The riches of the bourgeois.
(d) Riches, vice and oppression.

3. What do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?
(a) Different tyrants.
(b) Different amount of wealth.
(c) Different languages.
(d) Different level of inequality.

4. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?
(a) It's desire for art.
(b) It's size.
(c) It's thirst for knowledge?
(d) It's reliance on science.

5. What do the rich become when the new accumulation of riches is possible according to Rousseau?
(a) Kings.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Tyrants.
(d) Usurpers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?

2. What fell apart according to Rousseau?

3. What does not preserve liberty according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?

5. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?

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